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Constable?
Constable?
None that I can see.
Right, try again.
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None that I can see.
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The octopus picture on the previous page...
This is my culture
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RIP 😥
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😆The octopus picture on the previous page...
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I also love these by Craig Davison.
Rothkos are amazing in the flesh (canvas?) - astonishingly clever use of colour and tone to create physical/visual effects once they fill your field of vision.
I can't (as an art teacher) just choose one image, but never tire of these artists (among others)...
John Virtue
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David Hockney
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Guo Xi (blows my mind that he was painting these 1000 years ago)
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Klimt
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Andy Goldsworthy
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Richard Long
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Tommy.
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Interesting fact about Turner's paintings: The skies were the result of the eruption of Tambora, that took place in Indonesia in 1815. The eruption created a huge plume of volcanic ash that spread around the world and resulted in the "year without a summer", and affected the global climate for decades to come.
Other "culture" that resulted indirectly from the eruption were the writings of Mary Shelley, particularly Frankenstein: Inspired by the unusually bad weather, whilst living on the shores of Lake Geneva.
As an aside: I went to the National Portrait Gallery last Saturday: Although I'm not really a fan of portraits, I thought i'd have a look as I've walked past it many times.
Anyhoo: The one that really grabbed me was a painting of Winston Churchill, painted shortly after his demotion from First Lord of the Admiralty, following the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. He looks withdrawn, and tired: A far cry from the Churchill image we know best.
This is the one:
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Hahaha! Nice Bear.
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Frankenstein: Inspired by the unusually bad weather, whilst living on the shores of Lake Geneva.
they spent a lot of time indoors fo'shure, but "inspired" is a bit strong
they spent a lot of time indoors fo'shure, but "inspired" is a bit strong
The influence went a bit beyond just spending more time indoors.
Sorry but LOL at Bear! 😀
This thread reminds me of playing. Masterpiece at NY
Went to National a few weeks ago to see the execution of lady Jane grey. But was on loan sadly.
Yeah they didn't get to do much of the sailing on the lake that they'd planned and that forced them to come up with stories to amuse themselves, but there's many many influences that produced the book that was written two years later.
Love this steel sculpture
Neil Dawson - Horizons
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Shelley describes the weather herself, and the effect it has on her life, in letters to her sister. Lord Byron, Shelley's neighbour, also refers to the weather in one of his poems:
"Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth,
As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth"
Shelley started writing the book in 1815, the year of the Tambora eruption. It was published in 1818.
I think it's fair to say the climate change at the time, resulting from Tambora, affected their way of thinking, which strongly influenced their work.
Saw The Three Graces at the National Gallery in Edinburgh some years ago and was overwhelmed by the simplicity and beauty of it. Still the one piece of sculpture I've truly been taken with. Photos don't do it justice.
We have a print of it at home now, and not just because it's the only way I'm allowed to hang up pictures of ladies in the nuddy.
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Gregory Crewdson
I would've posted Guernica too
Instead, Lee Krasner - Polar Stampede. It's big and another one that's a lot more (actually) awesome in the gallery
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I think it's fair to say the climate change at the time, resulting from Tambora, affected their way of thinking, which strongly influenced their work.
So not at all the loss of her premature baby, her new husband having affairs, the work of Aldini, the enlightenment, or the long nightime discussions of paradise lost, no? It was because it was a bit rainy. Cool story.
I didn't say it was "all" down to it, but it was undeniably a big influence, as it was on all aspects of human life at the time.
Umm, it was more than just 'a bit rainy'. Crops failed all over the world and caused huge famine and hardship.
Anyway, Mary Shelly/Woolstonecraft was clearly inspired by the Enlightenment sweeping Europe; and the birth of modern science and age of rapid discovery, not least the work of Galvani which she'd been reading. People thought that since Galvani had made dead frogs legs move he'd basically brought them back to life temporarily and it was only a matter of time before the dead would be reanimated.
She might've been encouraged to actually write it down by having to spend ages indoors in bad weather mind.
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Actually it's behind you but the grounds are an exhibit themselves.
Indeed. It was a natural disaster on a global scale.
Of course Mary Shelley was influenced by other things, such as science, and her own personal experiences, but the horrific weather and global difficulties certainly created a mood and atmosphere that helped usher in the gothic style.
but the horrific weather and global difficulties certainly created a mood and atmosphere that helped usher in the gothic
What? You're not trying to now suggest that frankenstein was the first gothic novel now, are you?
CaptainFlashheartMember
One of the most striking paintings I’ve ever seen. In the flesh, it’s enough to stop you in your tracks. It just looks so fresh, so modern, so alive. Stunning
Just finished watching 'Darkest Hour', this painting featured very prominently in King George's reception room
It's a replica that is displayed in Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham (which was used as the stand in for Buck. Palace apparently)
http://www.rothbiz.co.uk/2018/01/news-5855-wentworth-woodhouse-perfect.html?m=1
@ nick
No, I don't recall saying that anywhere. However, along with Percy Shelley's earlier and work, it helped Kick-start what many consider the golden age of gothic fiction.
That previous post was on behalf of Towzer btw
thanks scotroutes
It always makes me smile and think of summer, paths and bikes.
It's from
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/long-a-line-made-by-walking-p07149
Mikey, the "golden Age" of Gothic novels started in 1750 odd with the Castle of Otranto (it's very silly), and by Mary's time had developed more into the Romantic..
In order to show that the novel's theme's are influenced by the weather you'd have to be able to show that they knew the weather was unusually bad and not just a poor summer*, and you'd have to able to pick out the weather themes above and beyond the normal Romantic and Sublime (and Gothic) that are interested in the nature of weather, and the addition of it as just added atmosphere. Gloom and Storm and Rain were pretty normal themes in Gothic novels.
* this is the problem with using her letters home, hundred of folk all over Europe were writing to friends and family about the weather, also don't use Wikipedia as your single source of reference when looking at this stuff.
You can believe that if you want. The evidence is there in academic literature showing how the effects of the Tambora eruption influenced writing and painting at the time. Perhaps you should do a little more research. There is clear evidence that they all understood the weather was worse that usual. It's documented in literature.
With regard to the influence of Frankenstein: many scholars accept it was highly influential with the genre of romantic gothic writing.
Brett Whiteley : Almost once
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That's Mamon, Louis Borgeois, spelt wrong no doubt. Used to be outside Tate Modern. Kids liked her